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what a shot! Amazing and i keep on looking at it for few minutes. I hope you can help me in my next job "DUBAI ARCHITECTURE".

some serious comments here....hahaha.yes there is no clear dp rules in fact there is even a post process chalenge. but somehow there is a complain options which we can use before the voting.My entry should be in second place if somebody used the complain option to disqualify this image ...tsk tsk harahar just kidding.Anyway a win is a win and majority of the of the members like it.there is no use of critcizing this image too much i will just try to take my best shot so that i will have my 1st place slot...hahahha, since i cant impose my own rules here....majority rules thats it. i used to be a purist but i changed a lot now , post processing is now a part of photography :D

It's an impressive picture, but I'm certain it's more than one photograph, since the sun's position just below the horizon is incompatible with the illumination of the moon. The angle between a gibbous moon like this and the sun would have to be about 135 degrees, and, what's more, as KeiliM has also noted, the part of the moon in shadow would be opposite the sun, not facing it as in the picture. It is possible for a moon in this phase to be above the horizon just after sunset (as I assume it must be, since the sea is more to the west than the east in Dubai), but it would be behind the camera.

So I wonder whether this is a photography competition or a collage competition. I would just like that to be clear at the outset, or for entries at least to be identified as compositions of more than one photo if in fact they are (and the data of all photographs used to be supplied). What constitutes post-processing and what does not? Could scanned images or even drawing also be incorporated, for example? Is one pixel of a photograph enough to qualify an image for entry in the competition?

with or without post processing the image overall is well composed and stunning. since there is no restrictions on post processing i consider it as amazing as the people judge it , deserve to be a winner. Congrats :)

Mate you forget to rotate moon to 180˚ at its own axis also I think that moon should come at this angle after mid night only plus I don't think that there were clouds on the date you *captured* this image.

If topic of this challenge is Mystery then definitely you won!

Anyway congrats :)

Seems a lot of it composed in post processing. The moon's shadowed side is directed towards the setting sun: should be the other way around. Also, the shadows of the buildings on the water would correspond to the sun being much higher over the horizon than it is.

great picture. so picturesque, hard to come by in such a busy scene.

Nice painting ...

I think you'll find that the moon was added in post processing. At ISO200 at f22, even a moon just above the horizon, the light of which had more atmosphere to penetrate, would not give you an exposure slower than around 1/8 of a second. At 30 seconds, you'd get quite a bit of motion, and it would be just a glowing rounded stripe of white with a bit of a halo around it.

At 30sec shouldn't be the moon already blurred? even with an aperture F22 or at least would flare somehow? also at that rate varicross from lights should be mostly visible in the whole picture, just my thoughts, newbie here ^_^ anyhow indeed a great picture!

Brilliant image

Is this really a photo?? It looks like a 3D image... Anyway ;) Great job!!!

Congratulations

It looks as if it's taken from a bar in The Address Hotel, downtown...

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